Leonardo Blair
Senior Reporter
Leonardo Blair is an award-winning investigative reporter and feature writer whose career spanned secular media in the Caribbean and New York City prior to joining The Christian Post in 2013. His early work with CP focusing on crime and Christian society quickly attracted international attention when he exposed a campaign by Creflo Dollar Ministries in 2015 to raise money from supporters to purchase a $65 million luxury jet. He continues to report extensively on church crimes, spiritual abuse, mental health, the black church and major events impacting Christian culture.
He is a 2007 alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where he was an inaugural member of the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York City.
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Lifeway Christian Resources, the Nashville-based publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, has selected Joe Walker as interim president and CEO.
Bluegrass Community and Technical College mourns student killed in Kentucky church shooting
Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Kentucky is mourning the loss of one of their nursing students, a mother of five, who was shot dead along with her mother in a brazen daylight shooting at the Richmond Baptist Church in Lexington on Sunday.
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Deacon Richard Pryor of CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne, Michigan, has been blessed with a new truck weeks after his vehicle was totaled while helping to stop a man who attempted to carry out a mass shooting during the church's worship service on June 22.
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As the Trump administration seeks to improve American education through Artificial Intelligence, United States Parents Involved in Education, a nationwide coalition pushing to restore parental authority over their children's education, is urging caution.
Pastor John Lindell plans to step down from James River Church, explains why church split with AOG
More than two months after announcing James River Church’s split from the Assemblies of God, Lead Pastor John Lindell has offered additional insight into what sparked disaffiliation and shared his plans to step down in 2027.
Beloved mother, daughter identified as victims in Richmond Road Baptist Church shooting
Two women killed during a brazen daylight shooting at Richmond Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, on Sunday have been identified as a beloved mother and daughter who loved serving the Lord.
Duane Youngblood insists TD Jakes sexually assaulted him as teenager; denies extortion, conspiracy
Armed with new lawyers, former pastor-turned-registered sex offender Duane Youngblood insisted Thursday that megachurch founder Bishop T.D. Jakes sexually assaulted him decades ago when he was a teenager and denied conspiring to extort him of $6 million before going public with his claims.
Actor alleges Tyler Perry Studios VP drugged, raped him
U.S. Army veteran and actor Braxton Wells has publicly accused the vice president of Tyler Perry Studios of drugging him and raping him three years ago, then attempting to silence him with a financial bribe and non-disclosure agreement.
Pastor who fought off teen gunman during carjacking calls survival a ‘miracle’
A Connecticut pastor who was caught on video tackling a teenage gunman during a carjacking in Baltimore is thanking God for keeping him alive after the daring confrontation.
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